Episode 39: Is Gluten the Root Cause of Your Health Concerns?

Is it possible that we have found gluten guilty without a fair trial? Could it be the processed nature of today’s wheat that makes it indigestible? Has 60 years of processed foods compromised our ability to digest well and detox efficiently? Eating wheat might make you feel bad, but is simply removing wheat from your diet solving the real problem? Or is that just treating the symptoms of a broken down digestive system? With a new 16 billion-dollar-a-year industry shaping our diet, all grains are now on the chopping block, which could cause VERY SERIOUS problems for us in the future.

New studies are finding that wheat and other hard-to-digest foods boost and stimulate our immune systems… and have been doing so for 3.4-4 million years! Taking foods out of our diet that we have been eating for millions of years may create an even bigger problem than when we mistakenly took cholesterol out of our diet 60 years ago. Let’s stop treating symptoms and start addressing the root causes. Join me for this podcast and I’ll show you how!

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I am curious about the (possibly unconscious) involvement of emotions when eating gluten, especially when it comes to the studies that were mentioned. I doubt it would be possible to design these in a double-blind manner. After all, our taste buds cannot be that compromised — to not taste wheat in our diet, especially if one had been forced to stay off it for years. (The opposite scenario of gluten-withdrawal might analogously trigger unconscious negative emotions). I wonder if there is an unconscious placebo effect of being allowed to eat gluten again. Perhaps just participating in such a study might trigger some positive expectations? After all, for ethical reasons a study could not be done where the control group is subjected to harmful substances. Everyone knows that. Can it be that just participating in such a study already triggers positive thoughts like, “Perhaps I was told a lie! Perhaps I CAN eat wheat again. How wonderful!” Could this be a major contributing factor in studies that compare the effect of gluten with those of a gluten-free diet?

The government said not to eat fats the government promotes wheat now and in the past, they have not said don’t eat wheat at all. Its the industries wanting to cash in on poor health that are promoting those nasty GF so called foods, but they’re all garbage. We have gluten in more than just breads crackers cookies pies and cakes its even in toothpaste so we eat way more gluten then any of our ancestors.
It would be great to hear you debate Dr Peter Osborne who has done extensive research on gluten and grains.
I totally disagree with your idea that gluten is healthy for us. Everyone I know feels better without eating grains.
Your so called ‘debate’ with Dr Perlmutter was hardly a debate at all he was very generous by not pointing out the flaws you speak off.

Thank you for this detailed and thought-provoking webinar. I have a few follow-up comments and questions.

Regarding Paleolithic man eating wheat, maybe they ate it to survive, but it wouldn’t necessarily make them thrive. I’ve also read that there was no tooth decay in the fossil record until man started eating grains. What do you say about tooth decay?

You referenced a study that whole wheat repairs the intestinal wall. I’d like to read that study if you can provide a link.

I’m paraphrasing you here: “Many enzymes in the mouth, stomach and small intestines break down gliadin and if they’re destabilized and absent and gluten goes undigested, the gliadin can destabilize the gut.” You said you can provide that study. I’d like to read that as well.

I had sent in a question beforehand- what would you say about mycotoxins in wheat [from fungus]? However, you read it as “micro”, not “myco”.

You mentioned a study with Celiacs that were on a gluten-free diet and that they had the highest levels of mercury in their bodies. –is this just correlation, not causation? Does the study prove causation?

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